Picture-hanger



D. MITCHELL.

(No Model.)

PICTURE HANGER.

A No. 351,932. Patented Nov. 2, 1886.

INVBNTOR K) WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

Nv PETERS. PhfllO-Lillogmphnr. Washington, Dv C.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.-

O A MITCHELL, oFor ruMwA, IOWA.

PICTURE-HANGER.

'SPZEGJTPiCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,932, dated November 2, 1886. Application filed June 2, 1886. Serial No. 208,914. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom, it may canoem;

Be it known that I, DORA MITCHELL, of Ottumwa, in the county of Wapello and State of -Iowa,,have invented a new and Improved Picof the picture-hanger, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the picturehanger and a picture-nail and part of a picture-cord, and illustrates the use of the implement; and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the'lower end of the hanger, showing its use in adjust-' ing a picture-cord hook. v

The pole or staff A of the picture-hanger may be made of one'piece of hard wood of any necessary length; but I prefer to make the pole in two sections, a a, hinged together by a rule-joint, a, and provided with a hook, B, and eye b, for holding the pole extended, as in Fig. 1, when the device is in use, and allowing the pole .to be folded into small space to stow it away. One end of the pole is widened considerably, and to this end is attached strongly by a tongue-and-groove joint a metal head; piece, 0, which is provided with opposite forked ends, consisting each of a long prong, c, and a shorter prong, c, and between these forked ends thehead-piece is concaved, at 0 for quite a little distance below the points of junction of the prongs of the end forks of the headpiece. With this construction the loop of a wire or cord, D, attached to apicture or its frame may be hung between the prongs c c of the forked ends of the head-piece O, and the pole may be lifted to allow the picturecordto be hung upon, a nail, E, driven into the wall of a room, the concavity c of the head-piece allowing the head of the picture nail or hook to enter below or within the loop of the cord. 'Io unhang or remove a picture, the longer prongs, cc, of the head-piece will be laid against the wall, and the implement will be raised to catch the picture wire or cord D in the prongs of the head-piece, and the cord then may be lifted from the picture nail or hook, all as will be understood from Fig. 1 of the drawings. At the other end of the pole A there is fitted by a tongue-and-groove joint a spring=,clamp, F, between the opposing elastic jaws ff of which the lower end, g, of a picture-hook, G, may be held, toallow the hook to be placed onto a molding nailed to the wall of a room, when pictures are to be hung in this way instead of by ordinary'pic tare-nails. 7 When the upper end, of the hook is engaged with the molding, the pole A will be pulleddownward, and the spring-clamp F will draw away from the hook, leaving it on the molding, and the other end or head-piece, G, of the hanger then may be used to hang a picture by slipping its cord or wire into the lower end, 9, of the book, all of which may quickly and easily. be done.

By making the prongs c c of the headpiece 0 longer than the other prongs, c c, a picture may be hung or taken down with assurance of its safety, as'there is little or no danger of the picture cord or wire slipping from the prongs, and at the same time the metal head-piece O is made lighter than it otherwise would be; and the less weight a deviceof this kind has, withample strength for its work, the more easily it may be handled with safety to the pictures.

Both the head-piece G and the spring-clamp F are held-to the pole A by rivets, screws, or nails H, passed through the tongue-and-groove joints of the head-piece, and clamp with the pole; but any other suitable fastening may be adopted.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A picture-hanger comprising a pole, a double-forked head-piece fixed to one end of the pole, and a spring-clamp fixed to the other end of the pole, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

p 2.- A picture-hanger comprising a pole made in sections hinged together and provided with a fastening at the joint, and a double-forked head-piece fixed to one end of the pole and a spring -clamp fixed to the other end of the pole, substantially as herein set forth,

DORA MITCHELL.

' Witnesses:

Mrs. A. B. HILL, NELLIE O. HILL. 

